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500 Tögrög Yokozuna Ounomatsu
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Монгол Банк ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 500 TӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 1 OZ 999,0 SILVER (Translation: The Bank of Mongolia Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 500 Tögrög) |
| Reverse description | Central field bears a colorized depiction of the legendary yokozuna sumo wrestler Ounomatsu in a dynamic crouching stance, wearing the ceremonial kesho-mawashi apron with decorative fringing rendered in polychrome enamel. The wrestler is shown leaning forward with arms outstretched, his hair styled in the traditional chonmage topknot. A decorative meander-style geometric border encircles the inner field near the rim, evoking Japanese aesthetic motifs. The date '2005' appears in the lower exergue in stylized numerals against a mirror-polished proof field. |
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Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke was a yokozuna of the early nineteenth century, promoted to sumo's highest rank during the Bunsei period. Mongolia's long fascination with sumo — rooted in the sport's overlap with Mongolian wrestling tradition — made such commemoratives a natural fit, and by the mid-2000s Mongolian wrestlers were already dominating the upper divisions of Japanese professional sumo at a rate that made the cultural connection impossible to ignore.
Hakuho's 2004 promotion to jūryō had just made international headlines when this coin was struck.